Re: [Summary-Talk] Incremental Processing Questions

[Jason Linhart <jason@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> >"incremental every hour" is not the same as incremental, none of my 
> >comments about incremental mode apply to that mode. Yes, it does 
> >exactly what you said in that mode, after any configuration change 
> >it will do a full process at the next hourly process time.
> 
> Is it possible to change this behavior?  To make it wait until the 
> next scheduled full process instead?  Without this, it really makes 
> incremental processing useless for us since we're modifying 
> sub-reports so often.

You are mixing up the modes again.

In incremental mode, you can't change the configuration (other than adding or deleting a sub-report) without going out of incremental mode. Going out of incremental mode, and then back into incremental mode will force a full reprocess at the next scheduled processing time

You could use that to get something sort of like what you appear to be asking for, but if you are really changing the configuration all the time there wouldn't be any point in using incremental mode in the first place.

If you use "Incremental every hour, regular on schedule", you can change the configuration at any time, but that will force a full reprocess at the next hourly update.

If you are in normal mode you can change the configuration at any time and processing will only happen when you have it scheduled.

> >  > If I use the full-blown incremental mode, can I modify sub-reports as
> >>  well as delete/add them?
> >
> >As I just said: No, in incremental mode you can add and delete 
> >sub-reports but you can't change anything about an existing 
> >sub-report.
> 
> So modifying an existing sub-report is locked out in this mode?

If you are in inremental mode, then yes.

> If I 
> need to modify a sub-report then, do I have to disable incremental, 
> modify, then reenable?

If you start out in inremental mode, then yes.

> If so, does that then trigger another 
> complete re-process?

Yes, at the next scheduled time.

The purpose of incremental mode is to speed up processing when the configuration is not changing. If you want to be constantly changing the configuration then you don't want incremental mode.

Jason
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